In a 20-0 vote, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA for short), the governing body for small colleges, ruled that it was unfair to allow transgender athletes to compete against biological women in women’s sports. The NAIA now becomes the first college sports organization to have the courage and integrity to make such an obvious and necessary rule to protect women’s advances in athletic, as the other groups, like the NCAA, waffle, stall, engage in double-talk and duck the issue while female athletes are hurt.
Yesterday the National Organization for Women, which has betrayed women in this controversy in order to keep its Far Left creds burnished, quietly took down its tweet of last week claiming that “White supremacist patriarchy”was behind objections to cheaters like Lia Thomas (above) dominating female competitors in college competitions. South Carolina’s women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley, similarly bowing down to Woke World and making no sense in the process, blathered that “If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play.” Wags on social media had fun musing about what “vice-versa” meant in that statement: “If you consider yourself a sport and want to play women”? (Staley’s an idiot.)
The new rule decrees that all athletes may participate in NAIA-sponsored male sports but only athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth is female and who have not begun hormone therapy will be allowed to participate in women’s sports. All sports “include some combination of strength, speed and stamina, providing competitive advantages for male student-athletes,” the organization explained, stating the obvious except for people like Dawn Staley.
Now the NAIA will have to pay for long, drawn out litigation, perhaps all the way to the Supreme Court, and be demonized by LGTBQ activists for having the courage to declare what basic ethical analysis and common sense should have dictated from the start but for The Great Stupid spreading over the land. Shiwali Patel, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, took her cue, reacting to the rule by saying, “This is unacceptable and blatant discrimination that not only harms trans, nonbinary and intersex individuals, but limits the potential of all athletes.” Patel went on, “It’s important to recognize that these discriminatory policies don’t enhance fairness in competition. Instead, they send a message of exclusion and reinforce dangerous stereotypes that harm all women.”
Ah, yes, “exclusion,” the obligatory grovel to the DEI lockstep.
The craven NCAA, meanwhile, issued this non sequitur, saying nothing: “College sports are the premier stage for women’s sports in America and the NCAA will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports and ensure fair competition for all student-athletes in all NCAA championships.”
Ethics Alarms 
What do they mean ‘biological sex assigned at birth’ mean? Has everyone lost their minds? Has the Soviet-style propaganda worn them down this much?
Yes.
Great observation, Michael.
How does separation of sports along biological markers limit “the potential of all athletes?” All athletes? The vast majority of athletes – male and female – already live with the separation proposed by the NAIA, and have done so for decades. I’ve heard/read/seen no complaints from 98% of the athletes (probably more like 99%) about being limited in their potential.
How does this separation “harm all women?” All women? What dangerous stereotype, what specific stereotype, is being enforced? That men should compete with men and women should compete with women? Is that the stereotype being enforced? Again, the overwhelming percentage of women are happy with that separation – in fact, have celebrated it – for time out of mind.
What virtue-signaling idiots like Shiwali Patel – and Dawn Staley by extension – apparently don’t realize is that a few men, like Lia Thomas and others (who don’t stack up well with other men in competition) are working to again push women to a position of second-class status in their own sports. And women like Patel and Staley are encouraging it.
It’s hard to be more stupid than THAT!
Agreed. The mind boggles at the lack of logic and insight. NOW’s tweet was spectacularly stupid. I wonder what the response would have been 20 years ago to this.
jvb
All real honest women need to quit sports, all together, until this trans lunacy is outlawed. Just quit, say enough, let the trans have their own league, if that is what they want, but no more men posing as women…..WOMEN, DROP OUT OF ALL SPORTS, NOW, show the woke mob that you will not play their skewed game!
I agree completely. A few more effective and articulate leaders like Riley Gaines, and it could happen, at least sufficiently to force the issue.
Lets hope that enough REAL WOMEN will have the guts to quit, just saying no to the woke crazyines, just quit….let the sports world struggle and die without them, if that could be…but just quit, when the money starts drying up, the morons running the games will have to give in to REAL WOMEN.
Jorja,
I agree with you but there is another alternative that is less detrimental for female athletes. By team, simply refuse to compete against any team (or opponent) with a guy pretending to be a girl on it.
Riley Gaines has more courage in her little finger than Dawn Staley has in her entire being. What a pathetic coward. She made a fool of herself in that presser. Gaines has more street cred on the subject than coach Staley too.
Riley Gaines: Woman of the Year.
“Riley Gaines: Woman of the Year.”
Second!
PWS
The fly in the ointment is the statement “only athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth is female and who have not begun hormone therapy”. More and more states are allowing other choices to be made at birth by parents and providers regarding the “assignmnet”. The check boxes on documents are not limited to male/female so the assignment is based on not on objective biological reality but on the subjective feelings of the assigners. So Peter Penis is “assigned” to be “Virginia Vagina” can still compete in women’s sports.
The virus of this gender theory has infilitrated the governmental beuracracy. A VA form I just filled out gave me the option boxes- Male; Female; Other. The Alabama affidavit to marry offers the inidviduals the choice – Bride; Groom; Other. I may not be around for it but I predict the next census form will be somewhat longer due to the multitude of choices.
I know the Vatican is not among you favorite sources but on April 3 it issued a docuemnt entitled “Declaration on Human Dignity.” Contained in its list of issues that affront human dignity is Gender ideology and Surrogacy.
Saw it, and may I say, “What took it so long?”
I wanted to assign our son’s gender identity as “aardvark” but my wife had other ideas, aside from bashing me over the head with a Louisville Slugger.
jvb
But you deprived your child of a lifetime of fighting for recognition and equal rights for aardvarkkind…